Well, tuesday night I had got myself tickets to a gig down in Grammery area, downtown Manhatten. It was Glen Hansard (the singer from one of my fav bands, The Frames) and a Czech girl called Marketa Irglova. They were performing songs from their new film 'Once' which has surprised everyone and been a HUGE hit over here, top ten boxoffice etc, after it won the Sundance film festival thingy amongst other things. I still hadnt seen the movie as it only got a limited release in Ireland, but it is now slated for a full international one late in the yere. Anyways, the gig was fantastic and I met Glen afterwards and had a good 10min convo with him about various things, he also told me he'd be back in belfast in November for a gig, in the Opera House of all places with his band The Frames. I then tracked down a Theatre still showing the moive down on Houston St and went the next day, its a brilliant movie and made me feel closer to home again as its all set on the streets of Dublin. Id go as far to say thats its probably my favourite movie, bar the obvious childhood ones.

Anyways, will continue this later as my times running out..We arrived in the other hostel a few hours ago - its more like a Hotel, its crazy. Off to explore a bit now...